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Soviet CensoRSHIP. The Editing of History. And Parallels with Animal Farm. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Editing
of History
SOVIET CENSORSHIP
And Parallels with Animal Farm
THE ORIGINAL PICTURE, LEFT TO RIGHT NIKOLAI ANTIPOV, JOSEPH STALIN, SERGEI KIROV, AND NIKOLAI
SHVERNIK. PICTURE SHOWS HOW AFTER TIME EACH OF THE STALIN'S COMRADES FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOT WAS
REMOVED AS THEY FELL OUT OF FAVOR
VOROSHILOV, MOLOTOV, STALIN, WITH NIKOLAI YEZHOV AT THE SHORE OF THE
MOSKWA-WOLGA-CHANNEL
STUDY IT…..
UHHH WHERE’D HE GO???Yezhov, head of the NKVD during the purges, was arrested, tortured and confessed to anti soviet plots. He was executed in 1940 and also vanished from Soviet history.
LENIN ADDRESSING THE TROOPS IN 1920 WITH TROTSKY AND KAMENEV
AND THEN….POOF…THEY WERE GONE
Where did they go?
CELEBRATING THE 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION
TROTSKY IS NO MORE…
DURING THE 1917 REVOLT SOLDIERS CHEER IN THE STREETS
IN THE BACKGROUND IS A STORE THAT USED TO SAY IN RUSSIAN, "WATCHES, GOLD AND SILVER." THE HAS NOW BEEN ALTERED TO
READ, "STRUGGLE FOR YOUR RIGHTS." ALSO A FLAG THAT BEFORE WAS A SOLID COLOR NOW READS, "DOWN WITH THE
MONARCHY - LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!"
The le t ter const i tu tes a c r i t ique o f the Sov iet government as i t then s tood, warn ing o f dangers he ant ic ipated and mak ing sugges t ions fo r the futu re . Some o f those suggest ions inc lude increas ing the s i ze o f the Par ty ' s Centra l Commit tee, g i v ing the S tate P lann ing Commit tee l eg is l a t ive powers and chang ing the nat iona l i t ies po l i cy which had been imp lemented by S ta l in .
The cr i t i c i sm o f S ta l in and Trotsky:
“Comrade Sta l in , hav ing become Secretary- Genera l , has un l imi ted author i ty concentra ted in h i s hands , and I am not sure whether he w i l l a lways be capab le o f us ing that author i ty w i th sufficient caut ion . Comrade Trotsky , on the o ther hand, as h i s s t rugg le aga ins t the C .C . on the quest ion o f the Peop le ' s Commissar ia t o f Communicat ions has a l ready proved, i s d i s t ingu ished not on ly by outs tand ing ab i l i ty. He i s persona l ly perhaps the most capable man in the present C .C . , bu t he has d i sp layed excess ive se l f-assurance and shown excess ive preoccupat ion w i th the pure ly admin is t ra t ive s ide o f the work .”
These two qua l i t ies o f the two outs tand ing leaders o f the present C .C . can inadver tent ly lead to a sp l i t , and i f our Par ty does not take s teps to aver t th i s , the sp l i t may come unexpected ly
Len in fe l t that Sta l in had more power than he cou ld handle and might be dangerous i f a l lowed to succeed h im. I n a pos tscr ip t wr i t ten a few weeks la ter , Len in recommended Sta l in ' s remova l f rom the pos i t ion o f Genera l Secretary o f the Par ty:
“Sta l i n i s too coarse and th i s defect , a l though qu i te to lerab le i n our m ids t and in dea l ing among us Communis ts , becomes in to lerab le in a Secretary- Genera l . That i s why I suggest that the comrades th ink about a way o f removing Sta l in f rom that pos t and appo in t ing another man in h i s s tead who in a l l o ther respects d iffers f rom Comrade Sta l in in hav ing on ly one advantage, namely , that o f be ing more to lerant , more loya l , more po l i te and more cons iderate to the comrades , less capr ic ious , e tc . Th i s c i rcumstance may appear to be a neg l ig ib le deta i l . But I th ink that f rom the s tandpo int o f sa feguards aga inst a sp l i t and f rom the s tandpo int o f what I wro te above about the re la t ionsh ip between Sta l in and Tro tsky i t i s not a [minor ] de ta i l , but i t i s a deta i l wh ich can assume dec is ive importance.”
LENIN’S LAST TESTAMENT
LENIN’S LAST TESTAMENT
ANIMAL FARM
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
DID IT ALWAYS SAY THAT???
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